Description

WordPress Plugin Community by PeepSo-Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to bypass the expected capabilities check and perform otherwise restricted actions; other attacks are also possible. WordPress Plugin Community by PeepSo-Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles version 1.6.0 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 1.6.1 or latest

References

http://www.pritect.net/blog/peepso-1-6-0-logged-user-privilege-escalation

https://wordpress.org/plugins/peepso-core/changelog/

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-264 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Privilege Escalation